Arrest at Versailles
- When
- 15 August 1785
- Where
- Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
- Part of
- Arrest of Cardinal de Rohan
Cardinal de Rohan was arrested on 15 August 1785 in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the precise site of an arrest the legacy row locates in Paris, likely as the broader locality.
On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, while the court awaited the king and queen to go to the chapel, Rohan, who was to officiate, was taken before the king, the queen, the Minister of the Court Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, and the Keeper of the Seals Armand Thomas Hue de Miromesnil to explain himself. The arrest occurred in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, and the controversy of the event stems from this arrest and the trial that followed. The legacy row records Paris, which may refer to the broader locality, while the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles is the precise site; the passages do not state the legacy row is definitively wrong.
Sources
- Affair of the Diamond Necklace Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-27
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